Chapters:

I was in the woods for some reason. There was
something about this wood that made it amazing at night. I seemed
to always hang out here, my best friend, Bonnie thinks it's weird
that I spend my free time here. The reason for that is the
obvious one and there's rumours about this place but that doesn't
bother me. I've lived here in Connecticut for seventeen years and
nothing has happened to me so I'll be fine, right? The thing is,
I don't remember how I got here. The last thing that I remember
is saying goodnight to Mom and Hannah and getting into bed. Was I
sleepwalking? Ah, probably. I was almost going to believe that
when I realized that I didn't recognize where I was. Yes, I was
in the woods but, where? I've seen every inch of this wood before
but everything was different, the trees looked older and the view
through the trees was gone.

I had to shake the thoughts that scared me out of
my head. I heard noises of the wood, the animals, the wind
blowing through the trees, and my footsteps walking through the
dried mud on the path, the usual noises, and the normal smell of
dampness and cold. For a moment I felt myself close my eyes and I
felt a gust of wind hit my face and I could faintly see a pair of
angry eyes, but as they got clearer I could see the colour of
them, red. I suddenly opened my eyes and felt a breeze on my arm.
I gasped, as I felt my heart beat out of my chest. I had to get
away at that moment, it wasn't safe here whatever I thought of
the place it wasn't safe here at all. I started to run for my
life, literally. Fear came over my body, somebody else was here
with me in these woods and I was terrified. I stopped for some
reason, I didn't know why. I didn't have time to stop but I felt
a shadow behind me. Don't ask me how I felt it, I just did. I
felt a cold hand touch my bare shoulder and I gasped, but
shivered at the same time. It felt like an ice-cube touching me.
I was terrified to turn around, but I had to. So I turned round
as slowly as I could, I was trembling.

I wasn't surprised but still scared to death to
find a boy, but no ordinary boy, those eyes, the red eyes. It was
him, the one who I saw a moment ago. It was the last thing I
thought he would do, but he smiled. Yes, hesmiled. It was no
normal friendly smile though, it was mysterious, predatory, I
felt like prey. He tilted his head to one side, like he was
studying my face. What I didn't realize at the time is how
gorgeous he was, but that was the last thing on my mind. I was
waiting for him tosaysomething, at hat moment he did.

"Caroline.." he said with that cold, distant
voice.

That was when I woke up with a small scream.
That's all it was, a dream - nightmare in fact.

I was scared again, and then I heard footsteps
coming from outside my door, even though I knew it would be my
sister or my Mom but I was still terrified, I felt like it was my
dream all over again. When my Mom walked through the door I
jumped.

"Your er, jumpy this morning." She said with that
warm, friendly voice.

"Yeah, just had a weird dream last night. It sort
of creeped me out a little bit." I said, stuttering.

"I...see."

I felt like telling her everything but I just
couldn't, it was too weird to talk about it, because it didn't
seem real. It felt as if it happened years ago. I made my way to
my wardrobe and found something to wear, I decided to wear a pair
of denim capris and a white shoulder top and some sandals, it was
summer and I wanted to wear something cute for the first day back
and I wanted a fresh new start. I put my make-up on, ran the
straighteners through my hair and grabbed my school bag and took
one last look in the mirror and smiled, then I made my way down
stairs.

I walked slowly down the stairs and into the
kitchen.

"Caroline! I made toast, want some?" Caroline
said, as she came up to me with a plate of toast.

"Er..no thanks, Hannah." I said, walking over to
the table.

"You have to eat, you know that?" said my Mom,
with a concerned look on her face.

"Yeah, yeah I know. I'll get something at
school?"

"That sounded like a question.."

"Whatever, I need to get to school, I don't wanna
be late,again." I said, quickly.

I wanted to get out of any chance of starting an
argument. I kissed Hannah on the cheek and closed the door behind
me. I tried to think of maybe how school will be today, what
everyone will look like, what classes I have. To be honest, I did
not care at all. Theonlything on my mind was that nightmare I had last
night. I never have nightmares - I rarely have dreams. So, where
didthiscome from - did it mean anything? Well, let's just hope it
wasjusta
nightmare.

When I was about five seconds away from the
school, when I heard my name being called.

"Caroline! Caro--" I heard from a familiar
voice.

She stopped when I turned around.

"They're you are, where have you been? I was
waiting for you."

I walked up to her and we started walking
together.

"I was uh, well I was going to be late." I
explained.

"O-kay. By the way, where were you this summer?

"I went to Italy,
I told you."

"Oh, right.
Anything you haven't told me?" She knew me so well.

"Well, there was
one thing - last night I had a nightmare."

"A
night-"

"Let me finish. I
was in the woods - in my nightmare. I was really tired so I
closed my eyes for a second and I saw these eyes they were red
and angry and then I tried to run but I felt a cold hand on my
shoulder and then he was there with those same eyes and he
whispered my name."

"He what? No,
this can't be happening." she said, shaking her head, heading
into school.

"Why, what do you
know?"

"You know in
History, when Mr. Miller was talking about hypnotisim and then
people were volenteering to be hypnotised and I did and I saw
these eyes, the same ones you described and then he whispered
"Bonnie..", Caroline, somethings going on.

"What, but, im
scared Bonnie."

"We'll just have to see what happens
tonight."

That's when I unlocked my locker and looked
inside to get my books and thought "This isn't just a nightmare.
This is much more, much bigger than I thought. Todays isn't going
to be normal. Something was going to happen."